My thinking changed not a great deal, but I noticed in some ways of thinking. For example the unit with how artists solve problems, this unit gave me limitations so I had to think more in depth about how and what I wanted to complete. For that project I did pendulum painting, and I thoroughly liked that project! One of my favorites in all honesty. It was different, and considering I never mess with paint because everyone [including myself] I just am absolutely terribly at it! This not only showed me how to solve problems by trying to weigh the ratio of water:paint but also set me out of my "artist comfort zone". I still don't like to complete an art project with paint but I will make an exception with this type of painting. I like the idea and execution of this because you aren't in control whatsoever, you can put some 'input' as to where you want it to start, where you want it to end, and sort of lead it but it chooses it's own 'path'. Either way, I still dislike using paint but I am now able to accept it a bit more than before. I want to believe that what has changed from art 1 to art 2, even from the beginning of art 2 to the end of it, that I am able to make art that looks so simple but has a 'deep' meaning. If not in all my art projects, then in my last project, especially my last project. My last project had to deal with a social issue and I chose how adoptee's feel about being adopted. I can connect to that on a personal level, since I myself am adopted. It's a weird feeling to not know where you come from, to not know truly where your home is, yes I understand "home is where the heart is" but is it really? I guess, it's a valid cliche, but theres nothing so unsettling about not knowing your history whatsoever. Not knowing who you really are, because when you're adopted you lose this sense of "who should I be" "who do I look like" "where did I get this talent from? My mom? My dad? Grandfather? ... etc" So with the final project I took pieces of literature from different places, pasted them in my visual journal and as a final touch I wrote in caps with sharpie "How do you define yourself" this can apply to anyone not only adoptee's but I just thought it was a good way to express how I felt in a simplistic but powerful way. Another project I liked, and I thought easily showed my improvement with proportions and values with different colored pencils, was the Teens Inspired one. A little background on how I got my inspiration and from who; Devorah sperber is an American installation artist that creates work out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners and map tacks that act as optical illusions. I was first interested in her artwork when I watched a video on the process she goes through to make her pieces happen. I think its original and just a different way of thinking about art. The main piece that caught my eye is her "After the Mona Lisa 2" artwork. She took spools of thread and hung them in long adjacent columns to create a pointillist, inverted abstraction of a famous painting. When they are viewed through the naked eye they are barely recognizable, when viewed through the optical device the abstractions are inverted [shrunk] into a detailed image of the original painting. She takes notable pieces of work that are well known and most everyone knows about, doesn't make them thoroughly detailed but since our brains recognize the image since it's so well known, our brain fills in the details. I was completely intrigued by this idea. Using the human brain to complete a finished but 'not finished' art piece is in genius. The connection I had with her aspect of artwork and the one I did is a very loose connection but one can still gather how I got from one idea to another. Since I'm very interested in how the human brain works and why it ticks the way it ticks for certain people, I decided to narrow my artwork on disorders more specifically chemical imbalances that occur in the brain that result into a disorder. Once I thought of a few disorders, I narrowed it down to one; Insomnia. Insomnia is trouble falling asleep or staying asleep through the night. Episodes may come and go [episodic] last up to three weeks [considered short term] or be long-lasting [chronic]. The idea of this drawing is to make insomnia more visual. As you can see the girl has a certain type of plug whilst her pillow has a different type and this symbolizes the fact that she cannot "recharge" so she's gripping the bed sheets in distress. The process of my artwork drawing wasn't that bad. I had trouble figuring out the colors of the drawing and how the message would come across, as well as trying to show that her body is sleep deprived. The project I really liked aside from the previous project I just talked about, was the two into one project which was the first couple projects we did in the beginning of the year. I've done the project before in art 1, so hearing that we had to redo it, didn't make me too excited, however I did like how my piece turned out. I brought together a silhouette of a young boy with his mind opening and his creativity and ideas surrounding him. I was originally going to color this, I'm still on the fence about that, however I feel since that there is so much happening in this drawing, i think that maybe an outline in black pen will suffice. I think that if I add color it will overwhelm the photo too much, but also having it just in pencil is too "bland" I think a black outline will give the picture enough balance and consistency that it needs throughout it. The 'hill' like figures made up with lines, was a last minute addition and I think that it adds a lot to it. With this project, it challenged me creatively and also made me think of how I could fill up the white space that was around the silhouette of the boy. It was very much like a puzzle, and I found it enthralling. Nothing could have made this class better, because you're perfect! Kidding; there are a few things 1. More open ended projects, the ones that were open ended I liked more, thought I could express myself more and I ended up enjoying more. 2. More time for some projects, less time for others, I cannot really say specifically which projects because I'm not sure thinking back on it, but I just know there are times where I wish I had more time to finish it, while others I was done in a matter of days and we would have a week or so to finish it. ps. images are out of order because weebly has issues with formatting images. |